Reading the Bible Around the World: A Student’s Guide to Global Hermeneutics

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It’s an exciting time to be reading the Bible. As we increasingly encounter readers with perspectives, experiences, and cultures different from our own, we can incorporate new ideas and approaches to interpreting Scripture. When diverse interpretations from various social locations are gathered together, we gain new vistas and a fuller image of the text.

In Reading the Bible Around the World, a crosscultural team of scholars describes and workshops global readings in biblical interpretation, focusing on passages in both the Old and New Testaments. By presenting a range of readings from different regions and people groups, with particular attention to marginalized groups, the authors demonstrate the importance of contextually sensitive approaches. They help us build up key values for reading Scripture in the twenty-first century: self-awareness, other-awareness, and true dialogue.

Who we are shapes how we read. Guided by these expert teachers, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the influence of their own social location and how to keep growing in biblical wisdom by reading alongside the global Christian community.

Author: Federico Alfredo Roth, Justin Marc Smith, Kirsten Sonkyo Oh
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781514001868
ISBN10: 1514001861
BISAC Categories:
– Religion | Biblical Studies | Exegesis & Hermeneutics
– Religion | Christian Theology | General
– Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation | General